FOR OSF: Glade PlugIns - Fire Hazard

Apr 26, 2018, 11:20 AM

Electrical Hazard

My brother and his wife learned a hard lesson this last week. Their house burned down…nothing left but ashes. They have good insurance, so the home will be replaced and most of the contents. That is the good news. However, they were sick when they found out the cause of the fire.

The insurance investigator sifted through the ashes for several hours. He had the cause of the fire traced to the master bathroom. He asked my sister-in-law what she had plugged in the bathroom. She listed the normal things….curling iron, blow dryer. He kept saying to her, “No, this would be something that would disintegrate at high temperatures.” Then, my sister-in-law remembered she had a Glade Plug-in in the bathroom. The investigator had one of those “Aha” moments. He said that was the cause of the fire. He said he has seen more home fires started with the plug in type room fresheners than anything else. He said the plastic they are made from is a THIN plastic. He said in every case there was nothing left to prove that it even existed. When the investigator looked in the wall plug, the two prongs left from the plug-in were still in there.

My sister-in-law had one of the plug-ins that had a small night light built in it. She said she had noticed that the light would dim….and then finally go out. She would walk in a few hours later, and the light would be back on again. The investigator said that the unit was getting too hot, and would dim and go out rather than just blow the light bulb. Once it cooled down, it would come back on. That is a warning sign. The investigator said he personally wouldn’t have any type of plug in fragrance device anywhere in his house. He has seen too many burned down homes.

Thought I would warn you all. I had several of them plugged in my house. I immediately took them all down.

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Side note....son of's light switch in his room started not working. The on position kept it off, and you had to pull the lever down a little to keep the light on. Thought no big deal. This was a week ago. Went to Lowes and bought a new one yesterday as I was also buying crap to repair the broken water line. So last night I pulled the switch out from the wall and it was charred. DEFINITE fire hazard. $2.00 light switch. Had I known, I would have replaced it ASAP.

As a kid, about 12 or 13, I woke up one morning at 5am to the sound of a truck outside. Thought at first it was the garbage man. The truck didn't leave, so I looked out the window. Saw a war zone. 4 fire trucks, police cars, mobile lights, the works. Went and woke parents. House next door had burned. To the ground. We slept through it. They even sprayed our house just to be safe. Eventual cause was ruled to be a nail. If you look in your crawl space, you may notice U shaped nails that tack up electrical wires. One of those mails had frayed a wire, and over years the wire corroded and eventually heated the nail enough to catch the stud/insulation on fire. And that same neighbor built my parents house when he built his.

Anyway, thanks for the heads up.

FOR OSF: Glade PlugIns - Fire Hazard

Is this real life?***

Re: Is this real life?***

I'm waiting on the essential oils sales pitch***

Brb going to buy as many glade plugins as I can***

Thats what I was thinking.

you would think

thank you but since

MrOSF go poop outside?***

Re: FOR OSF: Glade PlugIns - Fire Hazard

Ryan, are you still forwarding the email about getting a

Good thing I've never had them.

TRUE STORY I AM HOMELESS NOW THANKS GLADE***

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